Almond meal biscuits with photos

[fundj&e]

Name of Recipe:Almond meal biscuits
Number of People:
Ingredients:
•   500g almond meal
•   6 egg whites, (frozen ok)
•   1 teaspoon of cream of tartar
•   300g white sugar
•   1tble of homemade vanilla essence+ 1 teaspoons OR 1 tablespoons of whisky and 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence
•   1 tsp almond essence

•   TM Icing sugar, to coat biscuits (made from white sugar)
•   Glazed cherries or whole almonds


Preparation:

Add egg whites and  the cream of tartar to bowl and beat until stiff with the butterfly, for me  it took 8 min on speed 3 ½  will (try speed 3 next time )
Add all ingredients except icing sugar and cherries together in a bowl
Add egg whites to other ingredients mix with your hands until all combined. Rest for 1/2 an hour, not you the dough lol

Preheat oven to 180^oC. Make small balls of about 3cm by rolling them between your palms and then lightly roll them in the TM icing sugar.
Place on trays lined with baking paper.
Gently press cherries or almonds into the top of the biscuits.
Cook until biscuits become lightly browned on top - about 10 minutes.
Remove from oven and allow to cool.

Tips/Hints:The biscuits can be stored in the fridge in a sealed container for up to one month. I freeze mine, they do freeze very well and only take about 15 min to defrost.

If you are making these biscuits for your xmas hampers cook them a little longer.
What I do is bake for 10 mins or so then remove them from the tray and place them just on the racks in the oven - they will dry out better and will keep longer. Leave the oven on, it depends on how you like them and how you are going to store them. I left them in a further 15 mins.

members' comments

JD -  Could have quite easily halved this recipe, it made over 100 biscuits.  I made the first couple of trays a bit bigger than the last lot but they are all good.

Uni - Judy how small did you make them, I only got 29!

JD - Uni, I followed your directions as under:-
"Make small balls of about 3cm by rolling them between your palms, and then lightly roll them in the TM  icing sugar. "
That's a pretty small ball - the second lot were that size, the first lot were probably a 4 cm ball.  The smaller ones are the size of a 50 cent piece, the other size just a bit bigger.  Bite sized and delicious - crunchy on the outside and a little chewy on the inside.  I cooked them for an extra 10 minutes when I popped them back into the oven on a wire rack.

Uni - I saw this recipe on the net, taste.com 

Ingredients
•   180g almond meal
•   3/4 cup caster sugar
•   1/3 cup plain flour
•   2 egg whites NOT WHIPPED 
•   1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 170°C.
Mix together all of the ingredients until fully combined.
Shape single tablespoonfuls of mixture into balls and place on 2 baking trays lined with baking paper. Gently press each ball to flatten. Bake for 20 minutes or until golden. Cool completely before serving.
 
I did the roll, cut and press method and with load of icing sugar.

[judydawn]

Very nice Uni.

[achookwoman]

Uni,  this is my type if biscuit, Thank you ever so much for posting.  Babysitting at the moment, can't wait to get home to try this recipe.

[Cornish Cream]

Lovely biscuits and what a bonus being gluten free I'm always looking for alternative recipes to cater for my sister-in-law who's avoiding gluten in her diet.

[CreamPuff63]

thanks fundj - love these types of biccies 

[judydawn]

I'd like to grind my own almonds into almond meal for these biscuits.  Did you do that Uni?  If so, please tell me how.  I have tried to find somewhere which tells you how make bulk quantities but cannot find anything.  I don't want to overgrind and make paste

[fundj&e]

JD i didnt grind my own, DS gave me 2 kg to make the orange cake and these biscuits

i would do 250grams at a time, and i would also dry roast them if i were to grind them my self to remove any moisture which should help with the grinding

if it did go to paste it should be ok , once u add all of the Ingredients it feels and looks like paste 

[judydawn]

I'll give it a go tomorrow, bit late to be making that much noise now. You can use almonds with skin on can't you?

[fundj&e]

thats what i was thinking is judy going to peel 500grams of almonds  

you can leave the skin on but the  biscuits will be dark

[judydawn]

Mmm, thought so.  OK, I give in - I'll buy almond meal instead 

[fundj&e]

JD if you are making these biscuits for your xmas hampers cook them a little longer
What i do is i bake for 10 mins or so then remove them from the tray and place them just on the racks in the oven they will dry out better and will keep longer

[judydawn]

Will do, thanks Uni.

[judydawn]

Sorry Uni, do you mean turn the oven off and place them back in.  How long for?

[fundj&e]

leave the oven on, it depend on how you like them  and how you are  going to store them Judy, i left them in a futher 15 mins

[judydawn]

Uni, I forgot you cook for the restaurant    Could have quite easily halved this recipe, it made over 100 biscuits.  I made the first couple of trays a bit bigger than the last lot but they are all good and I'm sure the recipients of them will love them too.